Evaluation of creating my foundation production.

After all the planing and researching i then had to put all of this to work and put all my ideas and findings together and create my foundation production. The programme i used to do this was pages on the apple mac. I had never used a mac or pages before so it took a long time to get used to it but once i did i found it was a lot quicker and more advanced than doing my foundation production any other way. Pages enables me to use many different fonts, shading, layering of pictures and much more to make my foundation production look very professional.

when working on my front cover, i first chose to use a dark blue background with a cut out of my band member in the centre but then decided it was more effective if i used the picture as a whole as the background with a Silver Title with a dark blue border behind. I also had a dark blue column across the middle and bottom of my magazine cover. The main colours used on my front cover are dark blue, light blue, red and silver. All these colours stand out and work well together.

What i found the hardest to do was coming up with the features and regulars for contents page as you may be able to tell from my final piece. I had ideas in my head but didn't know how to right it down in my contents page. However looking at other music magazines and other contents pages helped me out a lot because it showed me how to put what i had in my head, down on pages and gave me better ideas. This also comes back to research again which makes a big difference because it gave me ideas on how to lay out and plan my contents page.

My double page spread ties in well with my Front cover and contents page because iv used the same colours and same feature pictures throughout. My double page spread is a question and answer session with Jason one of the main singers in the band Atmosphere. I chose to do this because in every magazine you read, whether its music, film or celeb, there's always a juicy interview between a journalist and celebrity and its always the bit in the magazine i go to fist.

For my photo shoot i chose a friend josh to pose for me and be my band member as his style is very like the style of the band member i had in my head. i took around 50 photos and narrowed it down to my favourite 10 before editing them on ipicture and then putting them onto my pages. Editing is very important when making a magazine because that's what people look at first, on ipicture i was able to change the effect, the pose and get rid of any blemishes for the cleanest sharpest look.

Over all im very happy with my final foundation productions and have learnt alot from how to use and manage a blod to how to edit pictures use a program such as pages.